I want to analyze the tweet line by line in order to explain why I believe it's worthy of its own discussion.

"Do you believe it?"

Everyone who's paid attention knows that Obama was pro-immigration. Why is it even worth mentioning? I think Trump is trying to illustrate how
different he is from Obama. In my view, it's tasteless to use the misfortune of thousands of refugees for purely political gain.

The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why?

The "illegal immigrants" part is a lie. If they're being let in to the country legally, then they are not illegal. Refugees are not the same thing as
immigrants. The "why" part is because the Obama administration and the Trump administration have completely different views on the issue.

I will study this dumb deal!

Calling an attempt to help refugees a "dumb deal" is going to upset a lot of people. Trump just deeply insulted Obama and his administration. The
fireworks are just getting started.

When it was announced I didnt believe it, as an Aussie I just thought sweet, someone elses problem.
Never understood why the US stepped in and didnt care

The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why?

Again not sure why but we appreciated it while it lasted

I will study this dumb deal!

It was a dumb deal, these people are economic migrants and not refugees.
If they were refugees genuinely in fear for their lives they would have used the significant amount of money they paid to people traffickers to move
to the many safe countries that lie between their homes and Australia.

The refugees we should be helping are those in camps not the ones with 10's of 1000's of dollars to pick and choose their country of "safety"

The two were said to have clashed over a deal struck between the Turnbull government and the Obama administration at the end of last year, which would
have seen up to 1,250 refugees currently stranded in Australia’s offshore detention camps on Nauru and Manus island considered for
resettlement in the US. In return, Australia would take refugees from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.

So, it's a refugee exchange. We're not just palming off refugees for nothing. We are taking some from South America - the number does not appear to be
specified.

There is only one reason Trump sees this as a bad deal - because they are from Syria and mostly Muslim.

Wait Australia took refugees and then put them on island concentration camps? and didnt settle them? And leftist in their country didnt burn the whole
government down?!?!?!
Could you imagine Trump opening ellis and angel island back up to do this. lefty's heads would explode.

originally posted by: xstealth
Australia deserved the attitude they got from Trump.

I wonder if Trump would be happier if we took illegal immigrant Mexicans?

We got plenty we could send.

But my point is simple, they could have been sent sooner to some where else. We now have a policy not to accept refugees at all, now we're forced to
because of Australia's policy not to accept refugees off of boats.

originally posted by: xstealth
Australia deserved the attitude they got from Trump.

I wonder if Trump would be happier if we took illegal immigrant Mexicans?

We got plenty we could send.

But my point is simple, they could have been sent sooner to some where else. We now have a policy not to accept refugees at all, now we're forced to
because of Australia's policy not to accept refugees off of boats.

They screwed us over on that, they being Obama and the PM.

This is only an issue because there was a change of President.

The truth is that nobody wants these people.

Thinking this through, the best place for these people would be to be returned to one of those safe zones Trump wants to set up in Syria. They can all
go back home. Then we are happy and Trump would be happy. And since Trump is a wheeler dealer and Australia is also in Syria we could help set up
these safe zones in return.

Trump math again. 1200 isn't "THOUSANDS" Mr trump.
Just like 250 thousand isn't a million, million and a half as in how many people attended his inauguration. and three million illegals didn't vote for
Hillary.

I'll give you 500 Syrians for 450 Costa Ricans and a handful of El Salvadorans.

Trade implies commerce, or at the least commodity. I would think making deals to "trade" one group of people for another (especially if currency was
involved) would be illegal. It would be the epitome of trafficking.

originally posted by: Sillyolme
Trump math again. 1200 isn't "THOUSANDS" Mr trump.
Just like 250 thousand isn't a million, million and a half as in how many people attended his inauguration. and three million illegals didn't vote for
Hillary.

Oh, Silly ol' you. You know 90 million is not 5% unemployed... even 45 million isn't 5%, right? Obama math....

maybe the illegal immigrant refers to them being in Australia illegally? i have not a clue. but all i can say is illegal is illegal. when i break the
law i pay a fine or go to jail. when someone illegally comes here they dont go to jail or pay fines. and know what else? i help pay for the illegals
with my tax money. like trump hate trump i dont care. but i love his stance on immigration so far.

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